Corruption and Conversion

Chapter 6

A few minutes later, the three of them were in a mini slightly larger than a clown car, though it could easily pass as one. The seating arrangement probably belonged in a circus.

Jasper was shoved in the trunk and Omega was scrunched in the backseat under a blanket.

Tye was the only one with a license to travel freely into The Circle and finding her with two known criminals wouldn't help her chances.

The same lazy guard she had seen this morning was waiting

The same guard from this morning was sitting in the little booth by the gates, lifting a lazy eyebrow at Tye's return.

"Haven't you already been through The Wall like three time today?"

"It's none of your business what I do or how many times I go from place to place, you're going to give me a limit now?"

"You know I have to check the car right? That means moving, so I might not let you pass." He says, satisfied.

It was hard to take him seriously when his black hair obscured his eyes in a messy curtain and the dead bird looking mat on top of his head.

"I'll tell you what I have, three dead squirrels in the trunk, and food under the blanket, now if you excuse me I don't want to be dealing with an immature child at the moment." Tye says, jutting out her chin in a challenge to deny her entrance.

The guard looks surprised by her smug expression and her easily flowing words. He crossed his arms with a grin.

"No"

"Huh"

"No, I'm not letting you through." The look of pure glee on the guards face at Tye's furrowed eyebrows made her want to punch his teeth in.

With a sigh Tye lays her head on the steering wheel, accidentally honking.

She lifts her head up, opens the door and stores over to the little white booth.

With a sickly sweet smile, she pulls out her access card and leans in the window. She swiped it through the chip reader making the gates open.

When Fenrir operatives moved up the ranks, they got higher clearance. Tye was two ranks below Tahara, the big boss's right hand woman, giving her clearance to everything but The Core.

The Core was the center most place in all of Zerence. The general being exempt from it made conspiracies thicker than fog. Some said it was a government ploy, others saying it was an experimental facility full of bio-nuclear weapons.

Whatever it was, it was heavily guarded and no one who tried to go in without permission ever came out.

The guard watched with a slack jaw as Tye got back into the black mini and continued on her way like nothing happened.

Getting through the Third Wall hadn't been a problem, the problem was having a good excuse to get into The Circle.

The closer they got to their destination, the more Tye noticed the brightly colored lights painting the sides of the buildings.

She mentally slapped herself for forgetting the Mid-Summer festival. It would provide the perfect cover for The Wonderland, street performers in abundance on the streets.

Omega had popped out from under the blankets, letting out a few curses.

"This is going to suck isn't it." She says, unamused.

"Definitely."

Tye quickly pulls over beside the wall, not caring that her spot was in the middle of the street. She could be towed, it wasn't even her car, it wasn't The Wolves either.